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CLASH OF THE PATRIARCHS
A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.
THE MAN WHO DIED FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS
Chugging through Pacific waters in February 1942, the USS Crescent City was ferrying construction equipment and Navy personnel to Pearl Harbor, dispatched there to assist in repairing the severely damaged naval base after the Japanese attack.
The Great Serengeti Land Grab
How Gulf princes, wealthy tourists, and conservation groups displacing the Maasai people
Saint Dismas
Carlito held one end of the rope, Omar the other.
Why Do Animals Play?
Scientists want an evolutionary explanation. But maybe the answer is simply: Its fun.
The Insider
Is Kara Swisher tearing down tech billionaires—or burnishing their legends?
A Bloody Retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’ classic.
THE SECRET GOSPEL
A Columbia history professor claimed that he discovered a sacred text with shocking details about the life of Jesus. Was it real?
JODIE FOSTER'S LIFE ON-SCREEN
SINCE CHILDHOOD, SHE'S STRUGGLED WITH ONE QUESTION: HOW MUCH DOES SHE WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW HER?
THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE
ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT THREATENS TO END AN UNPRECEDENTED PERIOD OF SAFETY AND PROSPERITY FOR JEWISH AMERICANS-AND DEMOLISH THE LIBERAL ORDER THEY HELPED ESTABLISH.
The Radio Squirrels of Point Reyes
\"Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.\" With that, in January 1997, the French Coast Guard transmitted its final message in Morse code.
THE GRUMPY ECONOMY
Why Americans trust feelings more than facts when it comes to prosperity
American Cowardice
Scot Peterson, condemned as the "Coward of Broward," stood by as a slaughter unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Does the blame lie with him, his training or a society in denial about what it would take to stop mass shootings?
Raina Telgemeier Gets It
The wildly successful cartoonist turned the anxious kid into a hero.
How Marilynne Robinson Reads Scripture
In her hands, the Book of Genesis becomes a precursor to the novel.
The Disorienting Beauty of "Africa & Byzantium"
A landmark exhibition offers a new history of art.
Shelf Life
An incisive satirist of literary Brooklyn takes on the American big-box store.
The James Bond Trap
Ian Fleming created the superspy and then couldn't get rid of him.
Lost Photographs of Black America
Ernest Cole was born in 1940 to a Black family in the Eersterust township, near Pretoria, South Africa.
THE DESPOTS OF SILICON VALLEY
The tech world has its own ascendant political ideology, and it's past time we call it what it is.
The Curious Case of the Contested Basquiats
Twenty-five \"masterpieces,\" an FBI raid, and the maddening, sometimes impossible task of rooting out fakes and forgeries
IN DEFENSE OF WOODROW WILSON
Despised as a racist by today's left and a tyrant by today's right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack.
Meet Me in the Eternal City
Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who's ready to move in?
The Radical Self-Awareness of Michael R. Jackson
He's become one of the most surprising and incisive-and misunderstood-social critics of our time.
A Plan to Outlaw Abortion Everywhere
The year 2022 was a triumphant one for the anti-abortion movement. After half a century, the Supreme Court did what had once seemed impossible when it overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping Americans of the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
A Military Loyal to Trump
If Donald Trump wins the next election, he will attempt to turn the men and women of the United States armed forces into praetorians loyal not to the Constitution, but only to him. This project will likely be among his administration's highest priorities. It will not be easy: The overwhelming majority of America's service people are professionals and patriots. I know this from teaching senior officers for 25 years at the Naval War College. As president, Trump came to understand it too, when he found that "his generals” were not, in fact, mere employees of a Trump property.
When Science Becomes a Slogan
The president of the United States cannot control the trajectory of a hurricane, but he can we learned in 2019-force the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to endorse a trajectory that he invented.
America Will Abandon NATO
"I don't give a shit about NATO." Thus did former President Donald Trump once express his feelings about America's oldest and strongest military alliance. Not that this statement, made in the presence of John Bolton, the national security adviser at the time, came as a surprise.
Climate Denial Will Flourish
On the last Saturday before Donald Trump took office, in January 2017, I watched the controlled chaos of a hackathon unfold in a library at the University of Pennsylvania.
What Does the Working Class Really Want?
Vying for the support of a multiracial working-class coalition, neither Democrats nor Republicans are focusing on the crucial question.